Books:Storytelling with Children by Nancy Mellon (do it as a group if possible)
Suzanne Down's Autumn Tales are inspiring simple nature stories
Susan Perrow's Healing Stories for Challenging Behavior

Stories from childhoodWhat stories do you remember hearing as a child? What stories did you tell or act out? What were your favorites?

NatureWhat is happening in nature now? What is the inner mood or feeling of the season we are in? In autumn, I feel the wind and the leaves, whirling, twirling, falling, pulling in, storing up, reckoning with the need to fan the flame within, light withdrawing, dark increasing, what are the elemental beings doing now?

What is the story line best suited for a child's perspective?
(blog post in the works on what stories for what age and why)

What does my child need? therapeutic stories? What is the picture I wish to make? What will feed him or her developmentally to see the picture I wish the story to carry?

At bedtime Ask for help from the spiritual world. We adults have a guardian angel who will respond to us when we ask for help and guidance. Bring the questions into sleep and pay attention upon wakening and during the day to the answers that just seem to arrive. Also ask our guardian angel to communicate with the child's angel and support us in our desire to meet and nourish the child.

Take a quiet moment and do a meditation. Close your eyes. Picture the child in a situation that you find really challenging and hold that picture while you breathe into your heart, breath love into the picture in your mind and ask for a story to address the challenge.

Yes, that is my experience too, Dawn and Jennifer, teenagers need us as much as little ones, it's just in a different way, and even though they seem so capable and independent, they still need the connection making time and tenderness, I never knew that parenting would be such a journey. Why is such a secret that only unveils itself when we are inside of it?

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Striving to embrace the sacred in the everyday and to protect the wonder of childhood - with slow and simple living. I provide support and community for parents, caregivers and teachers with this blog + my program Celebrate the Rhythm of Life ~a living curriculum program that includes Monthly Guides + eCourses, full of enthusiastic daily, weekly and seasonal support for celebrating the rhythm of life! I'm editor over at the Wonder of Childhood online magazine. On sabbatical from tending The Children's Garden, a nursery program for young children and their families. I am a Simplicity Parenting Coach. I offer consultation for Waldorf homeschooling and parenting. I've served on the Board of Directors of LifeWays North America as well as WECAN's Birth to Three Task Force. I work out of anthroposophy. Some of the hats I've worn in this life include: Mom, Midwife, Childbirth Educator, Outrigger Canoe Racer, Homemaker, Homeschooler, Parent Child Group Leader, Kindergarten Teacher, Nursery Caregiver, Gardener, Cook, Healer and Wanderer.

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